WIRELESS IN CANADA

Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 9

WIRELESS IN CANADA

NATIONAL BROADCASTING WEEKLY BRITISH PROGRAMME. (British Official Wireless.! Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright RUGBY, March 5. The Royal Commission appointed by the Canadian Government to make recommendations regarding Canadian broadcasting is returning to Canada after having spent a month in London and having visited Geneva, Berlin, The Hague, Brussels, and Paris. On its return to Canada, where at present radio broadcasting _is carried on almost entirely on private enterprise for gain, the Commission will confer with the provincial authorities in every province. It is stated that the German policy of decentralising the control of the radio programme and the high standard of public service maintained by the British Corporation have particularly impressed the Royal Commission. Sir John Aird (chairman of the Commission) stated in an interview that whatever policy of national broadcasting was recommended by the Commission, whether under private enterprise or State ownership, the Commission was more hopeful that by the time a chain of powerful stations was built across Canada it would be possible to arrange lor a regular weekly programme of British broadcasting for Canadian listeners.